§ MR. WILLIAM JONES (Carnarvonshire, Arfon)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty, having regard to the anxiety on account of the discharge of workmen in the Pembroke dockyard, whether any more notices are to be given.
(Answered by Mr. Pretyman.) Discharges on reduction will take place at Pembroke at the rate of twenty per week up to 15th October. Further discharges will probably be necessary from 1st March next. There is, at the present time, sufficient new construction work at Pembroke to employ the normal number of workmen, but in view of the certainty of lesser requirements in the near future, reductions are being gradually effected in order to avoid large simultaneous discharges when the vessels now building at Pembroke are completed.